Pletka: Iran Could Make a Dirty Bomb Today -- Washington Free Beacon
AEI Expert: Iranians are one month from rudimentary device, possibly year away from miniaturized weapon
Vice President for Foreign and Defense Policy at the American Enterprise Institute Danielle Pletka said Iran currently has the capacity to build a “dirty” nuclear bomb Wednesday in a House Foreign Affairs committee hearing.
Iran could produce a “rudimentary” bomb that could be delivered in the back of a truck or a bus in a month, Pletka said. A more complex miniaturized weapon with a delivery device, according to Pletka, could take the regime approximately one year to manufacture:
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My Comment: Many countries with a basic nuclear program have the capability to build a "dirty bomb" .... but I suspect that this is not what the Iranians (or most countries) want. In the case of Iran .... it is in my opinion that they are more focused on a nuclear weapons program and the geopolitical value that it will provide to the Iranian regime .... not on a program that only has value to terrorists.
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